HS code 8517: Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones
Heading 8517 of the EU Combined Nomenclature 2026, in chapter 85, with the official text of every 6-digit subheading and 8-digit CN code below it.
Official description
8517Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks; other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, including apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless network (such as a local or wide area network), other than transmission or reception apparatus of heading 8443, 8525, 8527 or 8528
Place in the nomenclature: 85 Electrical machinery and equipment and parts thereof; sound recorders and reproducers, television image and sound recorders and reproducers, and parts and… > 8517
Explanatory note (Eurostat)
Telephone sets, incl. smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks; other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, incl. apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless network, parts thereof (excl. transmission or reception apparatus of heading 8443, 8525, 8527 or 8528)
- Subheadings (6 digits)
- 9
- CN codes (8 digits)
- 12
Subheadings and CN codes in heading 8517
- 8517 11Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks | Line telephone sets with cordless handsets
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Line telephone sets with cordless handsets
- 8517 11 00 Line telephone sets with cordless handsets
- 8517 13Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks | Smartphones
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Smartphones for wireless networks
- 8517 13 00 Smartphones
- 8517 14Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks | Other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks (excl. line telephone sets with cordless handsets, and smartphones)
- 8517 14 00 Other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks
- 8517 18Telephone sets, including smartphones and other telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Telephone sets (excl. line telephone sets with cordless handsets and telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks)
- 8517 18 00 Other
- 8517 61Other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, including apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless network (such as a local or wide area network) | Base stations
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Base stations of apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data
- 8517 61 00 Base stations
- 8517 62Other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, including apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless network (such as a local or wide area network) | Machines for the reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of voice, images or other data, including switching and routing apparatus
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Machines for the reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of voice, images or other data, incl. switching and routing apparatus (excl. telephone sets, telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks)
- 8517 62 00 Machines for the reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of voice, images or other data, including switching and routing apparatus
- 8517 69Other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, including apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless network (such as a local or wide area network) | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, incl. apparatus for communication in a wired or wireless network [such as a local or wide area network] (excl. telephone sets, telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks, base stations, apparatus for the reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of voice, images or other data, and transmission or reception apparatus of heading 8443, 8525, 8527 or 8528)
- 8517 69 10 Videophones
- 8517 69 20 Entry-phone systems
- 8517 69 30 Reception apparatus for radio-telephony or radio-telegraphy
- 8517 69 90 Other
- 8517 71Parts | Aerials and aerial reflectors of all kinds; parts suitable for use therewith
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Aerials and aerial reflectors of all kinds, of telephone sets, telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks and of other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data; parts suitable for use therewith
- 8517 71 00 Aerials and aerial reflectors of all kinds; parts suitable for use therewith
- 8517 79Parts | Other
Explanatory note (Eurostat): Parts of telephone sets, telephones for cellular networks or for other wireless networks and of other apparatus for the transmission or reception of voice, images or other data, n.e.s.
- 8517 79 00 Other
The first 6 digits are the Harmonized System, shared worldwide: a US HTS code that starts with the same 6 digits sits under the same subheading. The last 2 digits are the EU's own CN split.
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Source
Source: EU Combined Nomenclature 2026 (Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1926), © European Union, https://eur-lex.europa.eu/. Reformatted by WISEPIM: indent dashes removed and parent lines joined. Only the Official Journal is authentic.